After just emerging bash-completion and following the instructions at the very end to add the line to my .bashrc file, it's a no go

Upon closer inspection of what got installed, the /etc/profile.d/bash-completion file referes to a file called /etc/bash_completion which doesnt exist at all. There is however a /etc/bash_completion.d/ directory which has some custom completions for portage. This file is not refered to from anywhere....

Is this package working !??! Oddly enough a search for bash AND completion on these forums yields 0 results ??

I have bash-completion (version 20020624) installed and working fine. I do have a file in /etc called bash_completion. I also have a directory in /etc called bash_completion.d/, which contains the Gentoo-specific completions you mentioned. The files in the bash_completion.d/ directory are sourced by the file /etc/bash_completion.

>>> Install bash-completion-20020624 into /var/tmp/portage/bash-completion-20020624/image/ category app-shells
install: cannot stat `bash_completion': No such file or directory
install: cannot stat `contrib/dict': No such file or directory
install: cannot stat `contrib/harbour': No such file or directory
install: cannot stat `contrib/isql': No such file or directory
install: cannot stat `contrib/larch': No such file or directory
install: cannot stat `contrib/lilypond': No such file or directory
install: cannot stat `contrib/p4': No such file or directory
install: cannot stat `contrib/ri': No such file or directory
/usr/lib/portage/bin/dodoc: COPYING does not exist.
/usr/lib/portage/bin/dodoc: Changelog does not exist.
/usr/lib/portage/bin/dodoc: README does not exist.

these files DO exist in the downloaded file though so i think the ebuild is messed ??? this is with portage 2.0.9

After just emerging bash-completion and following the instructions at the very end to add the line to my .bashrc file, it's a no go

Upon closer inspection of what got installed, the /etc/profile.d/bash-completion file referes to a file called /etc/bash_completion which doesnt exist at all. There is however a /etc/bash_completion.d/ directory which has some custom completions for portage. This file is not refered to from anywhere....

Is this package working !??! Oddly enough a search for bash AND completion on these forums yields 0 results ??

Removing the bash-completion tarball won't do anything, because Portage will refuse to unpack if the download was corrupted in any way. The /var/tmp/portage/ directory, on the other hand, might have something to do with it._________________I don't believe in witty sigs.

eh... just tied. Did another emerge --clean rsync which correctly pulled in the files that were removed by me but still the same results ... I tried playing with the directories within the ebuild but still cannot get it to find those files. Im just not familiar enough with the ebuild system to look any further than that ....